Trip Report - 10 Day Eastern Caribbean Cruise - August 3-12 - Bayonne, Bermuda, St. Maarten, St. Thomas, San Juan, Bayonne

Our family consists of our son - 18 - who normally walks with a walker but uses a wheelchair on vacation; my husband - 45 - and myself - 51 who uses an ECV (scooter) because of back problems.

We were so disappointed because we missed the "sailaway" since we left late and "my boys" were dying to get to dinner (didn't know until we got home about the problem with the "strange submarine" in the harbor). We thought we were leaving late because they were still loading luggage on board (we even got a notice half way through the cruise that some people were still missing their luggage and would you please check to make sure you hadn't received theirs along with yours - HELLO?!?!? Strange that they felt they had to tell people to do that). We decided we would get up early so we could see going under the Verazanno Bridge when we returned. Would you believe we got up at 6 am - I opened the curtains - and the bridge was ABOUT 100 FEET IN THE DISTANCE!!!! LOL I yelled for our son to get out of bed and onto the balcony and we made it just in time to get pictures going under the bridge - fascinating!!!! We later found out that the captain had made the announcement at a Q&A the day before that we would be going under the bridge at 6:02!!!! Glad we didn't decide to get up at 6:30 instead - I would have been upset!!!! LOL Read more